Resident urges council to curb heavy truck staging on South Wyatt Road

Deborah Marquardt, a resident who said she has lived in Midlothian for about 40 years, told the council the city had allowed an industrial site to use a narrow residential stretch of South Wyatt Road for loading and storage and that the activity is damaging the new paving and endangering neighbors. "Number 1, their stacks of steel are over 10 feet tall. That's a violation," she said, and described trucks parked on both sides of the 18-foot road and forklifts carrying gravel onto the pavement.

Marquardt asked the council to require the company to provide proper turnouts and durable surfaces instead of using the public right-of-way for industrial loading. She said she is submitting photographs and urged enforcement: "If they're gonna use that, they need to figure out how the truck's coming in and the truck's going out and not using our public road for their industry use." Council members acknowledged the concern and directed staff to accept the resident's evidence and follow up; staff asked Marquardt to provide the photos to the assistant city manager.